Azure Search
Azure Search is a search-as-a-service solution that allows developers to incorporate a sophisticated search experience into web and mobile applications without having to worry about the complexities of full-text search and without having to deploy, maintain or manage any infrastructure
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Allow suggestions for custom analyzers
Just what the title says.
77 votesThank you for your feedback. You can include a field with a custom analyzer in suggest API. More information is needed before we can take action on this request.
Thanks,
Mike
Azure Search Product Team -
Support for Postgresql for using indexers
Please provide support for ingesting data from PostgreSQL, similar to the existing support for Azure SQL Database.
31 votesPlease let us know if the below connector doesn’t meet your needs.
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Indexer execution status to App insights
Scenario: Thanks to the power of Azure, I have setup a indexer which continuously updates my index from the Azure sql db. Now I want to know if there are any errors while processing any document and why it failed to update the index(error message). This information is very critical for new documents or any document which is modified in the prod database. Note: Different teams do not have access to the Azure search service portal.
Current state: We already have indexer execution status but this information needs to be processed by another process by polling.
Ask: If this information…
30 votesI wonder if this article meets your needs:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-monitor-usageYou can send operation logs to log analytics to allow you to undestrand the health of your service.
Thanks!
Luis Cabrera
Azure Search Product Team -
Support Decimal / Money Datatype
Please add support for Decimal / Money datatype in index schema.
22 votesThank you for your feedback. We need some more information before we can take action on this request.
Can you share some more context re why you need a decimal (vs. the EDM.double that we support today) or money? Do your fields include signs like $?
As a workaround, with the recent release of Cognitive Search, you can create a custom skill to transform any field
Thanks,
Elad
Azure Search Product Team -
Provide field mapping function to inject a constant value into the index
I'm creating an index which is importing data from a SQL Server Database. I would like to add a field to the index whose value is just "OK" for every document. This field does not exist in the database and we do not want to add it there.
Is it possible to add a hard-coded field to an Azure Search index which auto-populates with the given string (in this case, "OK") for all documents that get imported?17 votes -
Extract snippets around matched phrases
I would like to be able to extract snippets around the matched phrases. In a knowledge base scenario, where Azure search maybe searching a blob of PDFs and we would like to search all the pdf and return snippets that could be relevant to the end user. So the user could then click on the pdf and open it to the exact location within the pdf.
Say end user searches for a key phrase that is contained in multiple areas within a pdf and within many pdf it would be idea to present to the end user less clutter so…
14 votesCould you help us understand how this differs from hit highlighting? This sounds like exactly what you want.
Take a look at the highlight query parameter on the Azure Search REST API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/searchservice/search-documents
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Custom meta data in static html is not being indexed
Hi,
I have nearly 500 static html files. all of them have different custom metadata tags like <title>, <description>,<region>, <locale>, <formname> etc.. I have uploaded the static htmls in to ablob and indexed the blob, as per azure documentation.
I was successful in searching the index fields <title> & < description> with relevant content, but for other fields like < region>, <locale>, <formname> it is shown as null.
I have gone through Azure search documentation extensively. I found that it was ready to map Conten-type specific (HTML) metadata tags, shown in the articleBut could not get appropriate information…
13 votesCan you please reach out to us directly? This seems like a specific issue, we’ll be happy to see if we can help you resolve this. If this is still relevant – please contact us at azuresearch_contact@microsoft.com
Thanks,
Elad
Azure Search Product Team -
Return azure search feature values along with documents
In Azure search, it would be good to return feature values used to rank documents along with documents returned. This could be used to further refine results based on user needs.
12 votesAre you asking for something similar to the ElasticsSearch explain API?
Link: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-explain.html
If so, there is another feedback item we would link this item to: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263029-azure-search/suggestions/7379515-support-explain-api -
support a mix of JSON and non-JSON blobs in the same data source
Support a mix of JSON and non-JSON blobs in the same data source
10 votesThank you for your feedback. More information is needed before we can take action on this request.
Assuming we find a.json and b.txt in the same data source, let’s say blob storage. Are you expecting the content of b.txt to end up in the content filed, and the fields of a.json to end up wherever they end today? Or other behavior?
Thanks,
Luis Cabrera
Azure Search Product Team -
3rd party DataSource development
Publish the an SDK and/or documentation that will allow developers to create custom DataSource components and for on-premise data indexing.
9 votesThank you for your feedback. More information is needed before we can take action on this request.
We’re considering supporting a push-API before document cracking and enrichment occurs. (this API would allow you submit data source update notifications (documents changed, updated, deleted, created) to Azure Search.
Would that meet your needs?
Thanks,
Luis Cabrera
Azure Search Product Team -
Reindex completely all documents
I can provide reason for doing it. For example there is some legacy application and SQL View as source for search or even app that is using Cosmos DB. Soft delete is only option. It could be very hard to change application code to remove documents from search index everywhere. So removed documents could stay in index.
I know from feedback portal that Hard delete is not planned, but it is not needed if there would be possibility to allow indexer to reindex all documents completely. Just checkbox setting.7 votesThank you for your feedback. Please let us know if this article meets your needs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-reindex
Thanks,
Mark
Azure Search Product Team -
Semantics/tag clouds/concepts
Semantics/tag clouds/concepts
6 votesThis feedback is overly broad. Please provide some examples of queries you’d like to be able to execute.
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i need to be able to index pdfs, docx, and csvs together
i need to be able to index pdfs, docx, and csvs together
4 votesYou should be able to do this today using an indexer. Take a look at this documentation page and let us know if it gives you what you need: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage
We’ll need additional information to make this suggestion actionable.
Thanks,
Mike Carter
Azure Search Product Team -
Add auto-turning by telemetry logging or any type of log gathering on Azure Portal or so.
Some customer doen't have Search expert and need to ranking profile turning after telemetry dashboard. Can we add Suggestion functionarity on Azure Portal like "how about to add this ranking profile"?
3 votesI like the idea of making suggestions in the portal about ways an admin can improve the experience of their user, but I’m not sure I understand your specific suggestion. Can you provide more information about the telemetry you’d expect us to track and the criteria we’d use to provide a recommendation to the admin?
Thanks,
Mike Carter
Azure Search Product Team -
Rest end point indexing capability like voyager search engine, that would be helpful otherwise we would have duplicate data in azure
Rest endpoint indexing capability like voyager search engine, that would be helpful otherwise we would have duplicate data in azure
1 votePlease provide additional information to make this feedback more actionable. Do you currently have data indexed in the Voyager search engine? Do they provide a REST API? What specific capabilities would you like to see Azure Search provide?
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Having contains option in lucene searchfilter
We have scenarios where based on context, we need to apply field-level filters- and seems clunky to create the filters through multiple 'or' statements on each of the filter parameter
1 voteWe need more information in order to respond to this feedback. The search.in is a great option for filtering a field based on multiple values. Please take a look and let us know if it does not suit your needs.
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Skill: extract and index URLs / URIs
Many documents include references to websites. Just as you identify people or places, please add URL identification, indexing, sorting, filtering, etc.
1 voteWaiting for additional feedback form customers, since a custom skill may resolve the situation.
Thanks!
-Luis Cabrera
Azure Search Team -
importing data in Azure search services
Why can't I import data into Azure search services? I'm using the free trial, and there's no Import Data selection on the task bar.
1 voteCould you explain what you mean by ‘import data’. In Azure Portal we have ‘Import data’ command that enables you to connect to variety of data sources such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, or blob storage. Then indexer can automatically sync data between your data source and your search index.
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Allow limiting blob documents to be indexed based on a specific metadata value
We only want to index a subset of documents in our blob container and in order to do so now, we have to have two blob containers and manage them. Similar to how you can limit document types to be indexed or not, the ability to restrict the scope of Blob objects based on a metadata value would help reduce our operating expenses and document management overhead. We could add a new Metadata name called "AzureSearch" and if set to "true", would be picked up by the indexer. Removing it from the index would simply require changing that value and…
1 voteThank you for the feedback. Please let us know if this article helps your scenario: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage#using-blob-metadata-to-control-how-blobs-are-indexed
You can specify if a blob should be skipped during indexing by modifying that blob’s metadata.
Thanks,
Mark
Azure Search Product Team -
Multiple matching words listed higher
Is there a possibility to get search ranked results based on multiple matched words? I will give an example:
The input is "event test example" and I would like to have the results with more matching words higher than the other.
So the response could be:
1. "event test example"
2. "event example"
3. "event"
4. "example"Is there a functionality in Azure search for this process?
Thank you!
1 voteThis is how default result scoring in Azure Search works today. I would expect your results to be ordered exactly as you described if your search term was “event test example”.
Thanks,
Mike Carter
Azure Cognitive Search
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